Word: allyn
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Died. Stanley C. Allyn, 79, retired board chairman of the National Cash Register Co., who spent a lifetime traveling the globe in tireless promotion of U.S. wares and ideas; in Greenwich, Conn. Assuming the presidency in 1940, he energetically prepared N.C.R. for the postwar boom, then, just as the Germans surrendered, sailed for Europe, where N.C.R. immediately began building new factories. By his retirement in 1961, he had not only expanded overseas operations almost 20-fold but had diversified his company into the manufacture of new bookkeeping machines and computers...
...this pessimistic view has been challenged in a recently published study, "Good Samaritanism: An Underground Phenomenon?" by Psychologists Irving M. and Jane Allyn Piliavin of the University of Pennsylvania and Judith Rodin of Columbia University. Based on experiments conducted by four teams of Columbia students in that grimy citadel of public indifference, the New York City subway system, the study finds that "people do, in fact, help with rather high frequency." The experiments, carried on over a period of 73 days, sought to determine in a realistic setting how a captive audience reacts to a person obviously ill, and another...